Performance Eyewear
Whether you are a weekend sports enthusiast or a serious athlete, you need performance enhancing eyewear. Long hours in varying light conditions and weather takes its toll on the most experienced athletes; add the need for prescription and it becomes a necessity. Contact lenses may dry as patients ride or golf in windy, dusty conditions. Fitting sport specific, prescription eyewear will improve the quality of life for patients.
The Perfect Solution
•Colors and Frame Choices
•Technology
•Interchangeable Lenses
Optical Performance
Sport-Dependent Eyewear
•Sport = Danger
•Cyclists
•Baseball
•Hunters
Every sport has a certain amount of inherent danger:
•Cyclists must consider a possible fall…
•Baseball players dodge speeding balls…
•Shooters or hunters a stray bullet and other airborne objects...
•The safety of an impact resistant lens is invaluable to you.
•Choosing the Right Lens Material
•Polycarbonate
•Trivex
Most sport sunglass companies use polycarbonate lenses; however Trivex is rapidly entering the sport arena.
Trivex provides 100% protection from UV rays like polycarbonate with less chromatic aberration than polycarbonate material.
Trivex virtually eliminates distortion that has been problematic in some patients with polycarbonate.
Don’t forget about Sunglasses:
•Polarization
•Glare
•Photochromic/Transitions
•UV-activated
Most athletes can benefit from a polarized lens.Photochromic lenses offer the benefit of a low light condition lens that adapts to bright light conditions.
In the majority of lenses the activation of photochromic properties requires ultraviolet light to change from light to dark.
Golfers and skiers may prefer a dark tint over polarized lenses as they block horizontal reflection and thus, the wearers perception of grass changes unfavorably on fairways or eliminates the distinction between ice and snow.
Polarized lenses use a film coated with a chemical compound designed to allow only vertical light to pass through the lens.
This is highly desirable where reflected light off of water, roads and other reflective surfaces scatter light and reduce the performance of your athlete.
UV Protection:
•Cataract
•Macular degeneration
•Blue light
UV protection can’t be stressed enough.
Polycarbonate lenses automatically absorb 100% of UVA and UVB.
Along with ultraviolet protections, consumers have been made aware of the danger of blue light.
There is evidence in recent studies that exposure to blue light increases the risk of macular degeneration over a lifetime.
Choosing the Right Lens:
•Grey Tints
•Fatigue
•Glare
•Color distortion
Enhances depth perception and reduces eye fatigue in bright light conditions.
Smoke tints provide excellent glare protection and keeps color distortion to a minimum.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Grey Tints
•Mountain climbing
•Skiing
•Baseball
•Light-Sensitive Athletes
•Versatile – bright conditions
Basically, grey tints work great with any sport that requires good color discrimination. It is a very versatile tint color that can work well with many outdoor sports, especially for your light-sensitive blue-eyed individuals. Works well in any bright conditions, like mountain climbing, skiing, and baseball.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Brown Tints
•Glare
•Visual Clarity
•Blue Light
Contrast lens that cuts glare, maximizing visual clarity.
Brown works well in varying light conditions and filters blue light.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Brown Tints
•Golf
•Tennis
•Mountain-activities
•Aquatic/Beach sports
Brown/amber tints are very versatile, hybrid tints that work well in a lot of different environments for athletes. Some sports they could work excellent for are: hiking, rock-climbing, mountain-biking, skiing, aquatic sports, beach sports, golf, and tennis.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Green Tints
•Brightness
•Grass Reflections
•Blue Light
Provides a balance of target and background brightness.
Light transmission accommodates for grass reflecting a low amount of incident light while providing enhanced ball illumination.
Filters some blue light.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Green Tints
•Golfers
•Pilots
•Boaters
Green lenses increase contrast for golfers, pilots, and boaters. Golfers especially love this tint!
Choosing the Right Lens
•Yellow Tints
•Contrast
•Sunset
•Blue Light
Enhances contrast and depth. Ideal for early morning, sunset and rainy day light.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Yellow Tints
•Pilots
•Fishing
•Shooting
•Biking/Skating
•Skiing/Snowboarding
Since this tint is ideal for early morning, sunset and rainy day light, many pilots find them very useful. Also, since yellow tints block blue light and are popular with shooters and snow sports enthusiasts.
Racecar drivers may benefit from yellow tints as well because these are great driving lenses!
Choosing the Right Lens
•Red Tints
•Contrast
•Visual Depth
•Detail
High-contrast lens, recommended for variable weather and light conditions to enhance visual depth.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Red Tints
•Running
•Cyclers
•Golf
•Color vision deficiency?
This tint is excellent for running, cycling and golfing. Ideal where detail is important.
Actually, red lenses are sometimes used for people with red-green color vision deficiencies, found in ~8% of males.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Orange Tints
•Intermittent Lighting
Choosing the Right Lens
•Polarized Lenses
•Glare
•Visual Acuity
•Fatigue•Depth Perception
•Blue Light
A natural high-contrast lens that’s perfect for intermittent light conditions. Orange tints improve depth perception and block blue light which makes objects appear hazy.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Orange Tints
•Skiing in fog
•Motorcyclists
•Target sports
•Sunrise or sunset
Since this tint is a natural high-contrast lens that’s perfect for intermittent light conditions, it is great for sports performed in foggy environments. Great for sports that are performed in early sunrise and late sunset times. Motorcyclists love these lenses as well!
Polarized filters reduce glare from reflective surfaces such as water, concrete, road surfaces, hood of cars and glass. Enhances visual acuity and reduces eye fatigue.
The color selections demonstrate that lens colors in brown, green, yellow and red combat blue light. High contrast colors like yellow and red offer crisp vision in low light conditions such as foggy days or early mornings. Green and amber lenses increase contrast for golfers while fisherman and cyclists prefer a polarized lens in brown or grey
WRAP SUNGLASSES:
•Better Protection
•Wider Field of View
Some sports styles are contoured, wrapping slightly around the face. This type of goggle works well for biking, hang-gliding, and sailing. Contact lens wearers especially benefit from the wraparound style, which shields your eyes from wind and dust.
Consider This…
•40,000 injuries per year
•90% preventable
•Leading Cause of Blindness in Children in U.S.
•Want 20/20 vision?
Prevent Blindness America reports that hospital emergency rooms treat 40,000 eye injuries every year that are sports-related.
Sports such as racquetball, tennis and badminton may seem relatively harmless, but they involve objects moving at 60 miles per hour or faster.
During a typical game, a racquetball can travel between 60 and 200 miles per hour. Another potential danger is that the racquets themselves move at high speed in a confined space and often make contact with one another.
Flying objects aren't the only hazard. Many eye injuries come from pokes and jabs by fingers and elbows, particularly in games where players are in close contact with each other.
Basketball, for example, has an extremely high rate of eye injury.
These are great reasons to wear protective eyewear. Another aspect has to do with performance.
It used to be common for people with mild to moderate prescriptions to simply participate in sports without wearing their glasses or contacts.
But sharp vision is a vital ingredient to performing well in nearly every sport, and participating in sports when you have less than 20/20 vision is counterproductive.
Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in children in the United States and most injuries occurring in school-aged children are sports-related. These injuries account for an estimated 100,000 physician visits per year at a cost of more than $175 million.
90% percent of sports-related eye injuries can be avoided with the use of protective eyewear.
Protective eyewear includes safety glasses and goggles, safety shields, and eye guards designed for a particular sport. Ordinary prescription glasses, contact lenses, and sunglasses do not protect against eye injuries. Safety goggles should be worn over them.
Whether you are a weekend sports enthusiast or a serious athlete, you need performance enhancing eyewear. Long hours in varying light conditions and weather takes its toll on the most experienced athletes; add the need for prescription and it becomes a necessity. Contact lenses may dry as patients ride or golf in windy, dusty conditions. Fitting sport specific, prescription eyewear will improve the quality of life for patients.
The Perfect Solution
•Colors and Frame Choices
•Technology
•Interchangeable Lenses
Optical Performance
Sport-Dependent Eyewear
•Sport = Danger
•Cyclists
•Baseball
•Hunters
Every sport has a certain amount of inherent danger:
•Cyclists must consider a possible fall…
•Baseball players dodge speeding balls…
•Shooters or hunters a stray bullet and other airborne objects...
•The safety of an impact resistant lens is invaluable to you.
•Choosing the Right Lens Material
•Polycarbonate
•Trivex
Most sport sunglass companies use polycarbonate lenses; however Trivex is rapidly entering the sport arena.
Trivex provides 100% protection from UV rays like polycarbonate with less chromatic aberration than polycarbonate material.
Trivex virtually eliminates distortion that has been problematic in some patients with polycarbonate.
Don’t forget about Sunglasses:
•Polarization
•Glare
•Photochromic/Transitions
•UV-activated
Most athletes can benefit from a polarized lens.Photochromic lenses offer the benefit of a low light condition lens that adapts to bright light conditions.
In the majority of lenses the activation of photochromic properties requires ultraviolet light to change from light to dark.
Golfers and skiers may prefer a dark tint over polarized lenses as they block horizontal reflection and thus, the wearers perception of grass changes unfavorably on fairways or eliminates the distinction between ice and snow.
Polarized lenses use a film coated with a chemical compound designed to allow only vertical light to pass through the lens.
This is highly desirable where reflected light off of water, roads and other reflective surfaces scatter light and reduce the performance of your athlete.
UV Protection:
•Cataract
•Macular degeneration
•Blue light
UV protection can’t be stressed enough.
Polycarbonate lenses automatically absorb 100% of UVA and UVB.
Along with ultraviolet protections, consumers have been made aware of the danger of blue light.
There is evidence in recent studies that exposure to blue light increases the risk of macular degeneration over a lifetime.
Choosing the Right Lens:
•Grey Tints
•Fatigue
•Glare
•Color distortion
Enhances depth perception and reduces eye fatigue in bright light conditions.
Smoke tints provide excellent glare protection and keeps color distortion to a minimum.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Grey Tints
•Mountain climbing
•Skiing
•Baseball
•Light-Sensitive Athletes
•Versatile – bright conditions
Basically, grey tints work great with any sport that requires good color discrimination. It is a very versatile tint color that can work well with many outdoor sports, especially for your light-sensitive blue-eyed individuals. Works well in any bright conditions, like mountain climbing, skiing, and baseball.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Brown Tints
•Glare
•Visual Clarity
•Blue Light
Contrast lens that cuts glare, maximizing visual clarity.
Brown works well in varying light conditions and filters blue light.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Brown Tints
•Golf
•Tennis
•Mountain-activities
•Aquatic/Beach sports
Brown/amber tints are very versatile, hybrid tints that work well in a lot of different environments for athletes. Some sports they could work excellent for are: hiking, rock-climbing, mountain-biking, skiing, aquatic sports, beach sports, golf, and tennis.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Green Tints
•Brightness
•Grass Reflections
•Blue Light
Provides a balance of target and background brightness.
Light transmission accommodates for grass reflecting a low amount of incident light while providing enhanced ball illumination.
Filters some blue light.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Green Tints
•Golfers
•Pilots
•Boaters
Green lenses increase contrast for golfers, pilots, and boaters. Golfers especially love this tint!
Choosing the Right Lens
•Yellow Tints
•Contrast
•Sunset
•Blue Light
Enhances contrast and depth. Ideal for early morning, sunset and rainy day light.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Yellow Tints
•Pilots
•Fishing
•Shooting
•Biking/Skating
•Skiing/Snowboarding
Since this tint is ideal for early morning, sunset and rainy day light, many pilots find them very useful. Also, since yellow tints block blue light and are popular with shooters and snow sports enthusiasts.
Racecar drivers may benefit from yellow tints as well because these are great driving lenses!
Choosing the Right Lens
•Red Tints
•Contrast
•Visual Depth
•Detail
High-contrast lens, recommended for variable weather and light conditions to enhance visual depth.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Red Tints
•Running
•Cyclers
•Golf
•Color vision deficiency?
This tint is excellent for running, cycling and golfing. Ideal where detail is important.
Actually, red lenses are sometimes used for people with red-green color vision deficiencies, found in ~8% of males.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Orange Tints
•Intermittent Lighting
Choosing the Right Lens
•Polarized Lenses
•Glare
•Visual Acuity
•Fatigue•Depth Perception
•Blue Light
A natural high-contrast lens that’s perfect for intermittent light conditions. Orange tints improve depth perception and block blue light which makes objects appear hazy.
Choosing the Right Lens
•Orange Tints
•Skiing in fog
•Motorcyclists
•Target sports
•Sunrise or sunset
Since this tint is a natural high-contrast lens that’s perfect for intermittent light conditions, it is great for sports performed in foggy environments. Great for sports that are performed in early sunrise and late sunset times. Motorcyclists love these lenses as well!
Polarized filters reduce glare from reflective surfaces such as water, concrete, road surfaces, hood of cars and glass. Enhances visual acuity and reduces eye fatigue.
The color selections demonstrate that lens colors in brown, green, yellow and red combat blue light. High contrast colors like yellow and red offer crisp vision in low light conditions such as foggy days or early mornings. Green and amber lenses increase contrast for golfers while fisherman and cyclists prefer a polarized lens in brown or grey
WRAP SUNGLASSES:
•Better Protection
•Wider Field of View
Some sports styles are contoured, wrapping slightly around the face. This type of goggle works well for biking, hang-gliding, and sailing. Contact lens wearers especially benefit from the wraparound style, which shields your eyes from wind and dust.
Consider This…
•40,000 injuries per year
•90% preventable
•Leading Cause of Blindness in Children in U.S.
•Want 20/20 vision?
Prevent Blindness America reports that hospital emergency rooms treat 40,000 eye injuries every year that are sports-related.
Sports such as racquetball, tennis and badminton may seem relatively harmless, but they involve objects moving at 60 miles per hour or faster.
During a typical game, a racquetball can travel between 60 and 200 miles per hour. Another potential danger is that the racquets themselves move at high speed in a confined space and often make contact with one another.
Flying objects aren't the only hazard. Many eye injuries come from pokes and jabs by fingers and elbows, particularly in games where players are in close contact with each other.
Basketball, for example, has an extremely high rate of eye injury.
These are great reasons to wear protective eyewear. Another aspect has to do with performance.
It used to be common for people with mild to moderate prescriptions to simply participate in sports without wearing their glasses or contacts.
But sharp vision is a vital ingredient to performing well in nearly every sport, and participating in sports when you have less than 20/20 vision is counterproductive.
Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in children in the United States and most injuries occurring in school-aged children are sports-related. These injuries account for an estimated 100,000 physician visits per year at a cost of more than $175 million.
90% percent of sports-related eye injuries can be avoided with the use of protective eyewear.
Protective eyewear includes safety glasses and goggles, safety shields, and eye guards designed for a particular sport. Ordinary prescription glasses, contact lenses, and sunglasses do not protect against eye injuries. Safety goggles should be worn over them.
